Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-27
MINES AND MINERS.

Northern parties will open coal mines
near Headsville and Kosse, Texas.
A coal mine is being opened near Alva-
RADIO, Texas.
Coal is reported at Beauregard, Miss, at
a depth of l25 feet.
A five foot vein OF solid clear coal has
been struck at Charlton, Iowa.
Cleveland, Henry county, Ill, is one
more deserted mining town added to the
list.
A seam of coal five feet in thickness is
reported ut 800 feet deep near Charlton,
Iowa.
The X. of l.. of Northumberland and
Dauphin counties have decided to call a
convention of miners TO demand an in
crease OF ten per cent in wages.
The Alum Cave mines, in Indiana, are
daily increasing the output of coUl. Their
market is Chicago. The product of these
new mines is said to be Of rs excellent
quality as any lifted in the coal fields of
western Indiana.
\ strike was i~naugurated ut the Coal
Bluff mines, MonOngahela river, last Sat.
urday. The trouble is between the drivers
and the operators. The former want an
advance OF p cents per day, which the
operators refuse to give. At present the
wages OF the drivers are s. 20. The de-
sired advance has been paid at the neigh
cOring mines. The matter has been referred
TO arbitration, and the men resumed work
on Monday.
1n.iafy s,1lal fha a.l.ayrannnn MIN
ing institute, composed OF mine Superinten-
dents, mining engineers, mine toremen,
mine fOremen'S assistants and Others I'M
mediateiy connected with the production
OF coal, has been organised. Its members
come from ~CarbOudale, Archibald, Oily
plant, Providence, Green Ridge, DunmOre,
HYDE Park, scranton, MinOOka and other
towns in Lackawna county, Pa. The OBJ
ject of the organization Is the discussion of
questions connected with the safe and eco
nomical mining OF coal and the founding
of a collection of books treating Of these
matters Shenandoah Herald.
The j. NJ. SchOOnmaker Coke company,
which has been chartered with a capitol of
II, 500, 900, wa organized last summer dur
ing Colonel SchOOnmaker's absence in Eu-
rope, with a nominal capital OF -, 600, bat
On january LIST all the works and business
were sold Ia the new organization by Colonel
SHOEMAKER, who took payment IN stock
and cash. The company Is composed OF
Colonel J. NJ. SHOEMAKER, president; s.
l.. SchoOnmaker, secretary and treasurer.
Captain j. ). SHOEMAKER, general man
aver; w. c. Magec, general agent. The
company is building 1856 additional ovens
at the Redstone works, near U~nlOntOwn,
which are to be fired mp rs 500 as possible,
and will make the total number of ovens
at that works 100 and the total in the Con-
nellSyille region l,5OO.
The coal business OF the Hooking Valley
seems in a fairly prosperous condition at
present. The demands made for ears by
the coal operators are not met by the rail
road company. and a great scarcity at cars
il reported throughout the valley. Large
shipments nj pig iron is going forward from
the valley, and the furnaces in blast are all
doing good work. The shipments of iron
from tine Gore furnace are about equal to
the production OF the furnace. In fact, all
the iron of the valley seems tO be going
forw ard aS fast aS made. The Baird fur
mace been banked up, owing to = scarcity
nf native ore. The WinOna furnace ot the
G.. * II. Z. X /. company, recently put IN
blast, i making 4 good record under the
supervision OF j.. III. Ferguson, who Is
making qdite a reputation rs II furnace
manager.-SgTdrTS Journal.